[HP] Aunt of the Savior

Jody watched in disbelief that Snape actually grabbed the locket with his own hands (in fact Snape had been adamantly against any of them touching the thing directly with their skin since Jody brought it back to Laurel Cottage).

"I'll go and give it to Dumbledore," repeated Snape, clutching the locket, looking at Jody with his mouth pursed.No matter from which aspect, he couldn't be sure whether she would trust him to do this now.

"I think you should know that Barty Crouch Jr. was sent by the Dark Lord to get close to Dumbledore, if you don't want to meet him by chance..." Realizing that he was acting too urgently, he pretended to be relaxed Shrugging, "I think he's at least not interested in pestering me."

Although this reason was indeed very reasonable, the panic and urgency that flashed in Snape's eyes still made Jody feel a little puzzled.But she didn't ask, but nodded slightly. "Well, maybe you're right, I think I should really avoid meeting Barty until he..." she bit her lip, "hasn't given up on his crazy and stupid plan."

Barty Crouch Jr.'s obsession with Jody has become a half-open secret among the Death Eaters, which obviously cannot be hidden from Voldemort.Even though Jody wasn't sure whether Crouch had openly demanded the future between them as the reward he was expecting in front of the Dark Lord, but after Jody's undercover work was interrupted, Voldemort did abnormally no longer assign her. What task is performed.This change undoubtedly gave Jody a premonition that he had become a prize that Voldemort could reward Crouch at any time.She even felt a little regretful about it: her plan to protect James and the others might not have been so thoughtful.

Jody had no doubt that Snape should have known what Crouch was up to, but he was much calmer than she'd expected.This kept her from finding the courage to ask him exactly how he planned to solve this problem, but today Snape's proposal seemed to have expressed his intention in a tactful way, and she didn't want him to feel that he didn't trust him.

Since Jody always has a phoenix feather that the Order of the Phoenix uses for emergency contact, it is not difficult to find Dumbledore.

In the evening when Jody was brewing an antidote for Regulus, Snape left Laurel Cottage alone with the locket.He hurried through one piece of desolate and withered forest after another, until he reached the top of Ermine Mountain.He gave up the way of apparating and used this physical movement to relieve his inner anxiety.

The cold winter wind rolled up a few withered yellow leaves under Snape's feet, making his robes rustle lightly.He paced back and forth nervously and anxiously, holding a magic wand in one hand, and tightly pinching the phoenix's golden feathers with the other, looking very ridiculous.

Finally, a bright and dazzling red light suddenly flashed in the cloudy sky, followed by Dumbledore and his beautiful golden-red phoenix.

"Severus." Dumbledore held the wand in his hand, looked at the nervous and pale young man in front of him with a complex expression, finally set his sight on the phoenix feather in his hand, and frowned slightly. "Who are you coming to see me for today? Voldemort or..."

"No, not for the Dark Lord, but for myself," said Snape hastily, slipping his wand into the pocket of his robes - looking flustered, it took several tries before he succeeded. "I have something very important to tell you...but about Trelawney's prophecy, I...I want to ask you..."

He wrung his hands in front of him, unable to speak.

Dumbledore waved his wand, and the winter wind was cut off immediately, and a dead silence fell around them.

"Ah, so you still told Voldemort the prophecy?" A look of disappointment flashed in Dumbledore's blue eyes. "So, how much did you tell him?"

The obvious disappointment in the old man's eyes made Snape wince: "All, all I heard... So, today the Dark Lord sent Evan Rozier to attack St. Mungo, and I think the Dark Lord has got Regarding all the information about pregnant women, he believed in that prophecy, and he will not let go of any possibility..."

"Ah, yes, but since you have chosen to do things for your master conscientiously, why don't you ask him for help instead of asking for my help?" Dumbledore's tone was sharp and accusatory. "You brought him back the information he was interested in, and he will be willing to reward you, won't you?"

"No, no." Snape shook his head in pain, his black hair twitching on both sides of his cheeks. "Only you can help me...Help me hide..." He struggled to squeeze out one word after another from his throat. "Hiding... Jody... I can't... can't let her know... definitely can't..."

"Why are you afraid Jody knows about the prophecy?"

"You...you know why, that prophecy may refer to Lily...Lily's child...the Potter child..." Snape said uneasy. "The Dark Lord will kill her...they...they have nothing to do...Jordy will never allow this to happen..."

"In this case, why did you tell Voldemort the prophecy you heard?" Dumbledore stared at Snape's pale face: "You clearly know Jody's purpose."

"I can't help it, I have to...and I didn't know Lily at the time..." Snape looked at Dumbledore pleadingly, with unconcealable panic in his expression. "If Jody knew that I told the Dark Lord about the prophecy, she... she would hate me, she would leave me forever... I, I can't stand this, I must not lose Jo..."

Recalling the events of that day, Snape felt almost out of breath.But he couldn't open his mouth to explain to anyone why he went to the Hog's Head that day.After falling into a cold war with Jody, he learned from Lucius that Barty Crouch Jr. had formally begged Voldemort to combine him with Jody as a reward for his future success in sneaking into Hogwarts.

This was undoubtedly bad news for Snape.He had to urgently think about how to prevent this from happening—he couldn't let Crouch succeed, he couldn't make Crouch the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts!

So, he rushed to the Pig's Head Bar very early, sat in the corner and waited for Dumbledore or Crouch to appear, looking for an opportunity to spoil the interview—maybe he just needed a little nonsense potion to make Dumbledore feel that Crouch Rauch is unreliable on it.

However, when Dumbledore finally walked into the Hog's Head Bar, Snape was surprised to find that a familiar woman greeted him actively. She looked sloppy and downcast, and her words kept emphasizing her urgent desire for work.

Snape's brow furrowed subconsciously - ever since he and Jody had had a fight, he'd done it subconsciously more often than in the past.He discovered that he knew the woman, a fellow Hogwarts student, Sybill Trelawney of Ravenclaw.

From the very first day of class, she caught Professor Slughorn's attention for her descent from the seer Cassandra Trelawney.Later, Professor Slughorn seemed to have invited her to the Slug Club's party, but apart from her increasingly weird dress and appearance, Snape really didn't realize that this woman was a prophet talent.

Almost everyone whispers behind her back that she has not inherited the magical powers of prophecy from her ancestors, especially since she is always muttering bad luck, which annoys everyone who knows her, so her situation is even worse than that of the most unfriendly. Snape was withdrawn in his dealings with people.

Moreover, among Ravenclaw's curious and intelligent students, her grades have always seemed to be average, and there is nothing outstanding about her.Prophecy professor?That sounds really stupid!

However, if Dumbledore agrees to Trelawney's application, and he can control Trelawney with the Dementor Curse, maybe he can do better than Barty Crouch, right...

The idea that popped into his head grabbed Snape's heart, and he followed them up the stairs involuntarily, using a small wiretapping spell, trying to ascertain the status of Trelawney's interview.Then he heard Trelawney make a prophecy—

In fact Snape hadn't been able to hear the whole prophecy, and just as soon as he noticed another person walking up the stairs, he immediately Apparated and fled.But this did not prevent him from realizing how beneficial he was to himself just now.

He nervously considered all possibilities: it was indeed very possible that this prophecy was the crazy woman's deception in front of Dumbledore in order to win the teaching position, but the Dark Lord would probably like the news.If he believes it, then its value may be able to replace the credit of Barty Crouch Jr., or even better, he has enough leverage to make the same request as Barty Crouch Jr.  …

So Snape rushed to the Dark Lord and spoke the prophecy he had heard, and even got the Dark Lord's praise for it.Then, he returned to Jody excitedly and apprehensively.After he'd helped her save Regulus' life and hide the Horcrux's secret, he couldn't help thinking that maybe he could get her to trust him again, like she used to.

It wasn't until today, when he discovered that Lily was also pregnant, that he realized that he might have made an extremely terrible mistake.

—A Jody may never forgive his mistakes.

After a long and awkward silence, Snape asked weakly, "You will protect them, won't you? Lily and... Potter..."

"Yes, I will." Dumbledore nodded, and the slight sound of the long white beard rubbing against his robe could be heard so clearly at this moment. "But Severus, even if Jody doesn't know that you told Voldemort the prophecy, as long as James and Lily are in danger, she will not stand idly by. She will take risks at all costs. I think you are better than me." It's clearer about that, isn't it?"

"……Yes."

"If you really love Jody, what you have to do should not be to hide the mistakes you made, but to stand with her." Dumbledore's blue eyes behind the half-moon lenses hide something emotions that Snape did not understand. "A common stand can bring you closer. You must cherish everything that the other person cares about, instead of just seeing the person you love in front of you."

Snape was silent for a moment, then said softly, "I will try my best to make up for my mistakes, so I came to you - I also brought something more important than prophecy..."

Just as Snape was about to say the word, he felt as if the locket that was in his pocket suddenly reached out and grabbed his throat, but he finally managed to say it out of breath. "Perhaps you've heard of it, Horcruxes?"

For the first time, Dumbledore's usually calm face showed obvious shock. "Horcrux?"

"The Dark Lord made Horcruxes." Snape took out the exquisite-looking gold locket from his pocket, and he realized that the suffocation he had been feeling all this time was because of this gold locket. "This is the Horcrux."

Dumbledore swung his wand and carefully cast some detection spells on the locket, some of which Snape had never heard of.As the test progressed, his expression became more and more serious and cautious. "Severus, I want to know where you found this Horcrux, and I hope you haven't carried it with you for a long time. If you can trust me..."

"I'm afraid I can't answer your first question in more detail, because the person who discovered this Horcrux was not me, but Regulus Black." Snape let go of his hand, and let the locket fall into Deng Xiaoping's mouth. In Bullido's hand, he let out a sigh of relief.

"Regulus?" Dumbledore didn't seem particularly surprised. He looked at the locket in his hand and said in a clear and heartfelt admiration: "He is very brave, very brave...but some At that time, the price to be paid for correcting mistakes is too great..."

"Jordy thinks you are the only one who can destroy this locket." Snape said in a slightly rigid tone, trying not to think about what the old wizard was implying. "So I brought it to you for her. I will not let her face any danger alone anymore, I will help her, or even do anything on her behalf, as long as you agree to hide it for me..."

"Is that why that phoenix feather is in your hand?"

"Yes." Snape looked at Fawkes over Dumbledore's shoulder. "But from now on, maybe I need one too."

"If you've thought it through." Dumbledore stroked Fox's head, and a golden-red feather fell into Snape's hand.

Looking at the phoenix feather in his palm, Snape finally felt the reality of completely betraying the Dark Lord and everything he had pursued in the past, even though he had done many things before that that were enough to be considered a traitor by the Dark Lord.

But he has no regrets.

"I have one last message to remind you about Barty Crouch Jr. He's a Death Eater, sent by the Dark Lord to get close to you, into Hogwarts, and even into the Order of the Phoenix. "

"Thank you for reminding me." Dumbledore narrowed his eyes. "Mr. Crouch is probably going to have a headache..."

"Then I'm leaving, and I'll let you know if there's any news." Snape tucked away the second phoenix feather and said in a low voice. "Don't forget that you promised to keep it a secret from me..."

"Of course, I'll keep it a secret." Dumbledore suddenly stopped Snape. "Do you really think so, though? Do you really think Jody will hate you and leave you for prophesied reasons?"

"I don't think Jody will forgive me for putting the James Potter family in such danger." Snape's voice was so low that he could barely hear what he was saying.

"Severus, you and Jody, maybe you really need to have a good communication. You are still young, you should try to be more frank, and don't carry so many things that you don't need to bear." Dumbledore slightly After a pause, "Perhaps then you will find that Jody trusts you more than you imagined."